Daily work, motivated and disciplined, really is a holy remedy, as many spirits have said for centuries. In addition to the therapeutic effect, the directing of attention towards a just goal dissipates all kinds of distractions and counterproductive thoughts. The result, although sometimes rewarding, when unsatisfactory is innocuous to the motivation that has already been rewarded in dedicating with sincerity and strengthening in dedication. Abstaining from work, therefore, is not only harmful to health, but also unwise from the point of view of pure and true satisfaction.
The Phonic and Syntactic Richness of Portuguese
The phonic and syntactic richness of Portuguese, more than the nature of its people or the flair of its authors, places its poetry among the most remarkable in world literature. As a vehicle for expressing the primitive impulse represented by poetry, its possibilities are so varied and its effects so unique that, even when worked on by ordinary hands, it sometimes achieves results worthy of sincere admiration.
All Real Modern Problems…
All real modern problems, if not identical replicas of age-old problems, consist only of new nuances to problems whose debate has long been recorded in philosophy and whose consequences have been duly demonstrated by endless examples in history. Having both at disposal and rejecting them; wanting to come up with stupid solutions whose results have already been illustrated theoretically and practically, has to be classified, quite rightly, as an act of bad faith.
It Is Impressive to Note the Ever-Present Interest…
It is impressive to note the ever-present interest in contemporary literature, found even in authors who are aware that great literature is, by definition, timeless. To note that, while there are dozens of centuries that will not be absorbed, thousands of works that will not be read due to lack of time, interest in contemporary works still thrives, and contemporary works attract attention that the majority of secular works, already consecrated by the test of time, do not. How to explain why the opposite does not happen? How to explain that what is common is not an almost desperate desire to absorb the essentials of these tens of centuries and thousands of works? There seems to be no rational explanation for any of this.